Iraqi Sunni Muslim clerics Friday rejected the newly appointed Iraq interim government, charging it is a U.S.-shaped and dominated administration.
The clerics used their Friday sermons t criticize Prime Minister Iyad Allawi for declaring the new government will sign security agreements with the United States for extending the presence of U.S. forces in Iraq.
Leaflets distributed by Sunni groups, including the Islamic Liberation party, compared the interim government to the dissolved U.S.-sponsored Iraqi Governing Council.
There is no difference between the IGC and the transitional government. They are two sides of the same coin, one leaflet said
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